Italian Fluency B1
Course information
Have you completed UvA Talen’s Italian level 6 course and would you like to improve your Italian language skills? Then Italian Fluency is the right course for you. This course will give you more self-confidence speaking and listening at B1 level as you work on your communication skills in Italian.
Improve your Italian language skills
Although your Italian needs to be at level 6 to take the course, some basic grammar and vocabulary will also be covered. You will improve your Italian language skills by learning commonly used expressions and expanding your vocabulary. This will allow you to communicate with more confidence.
This course focuses on the following two language skills: speaking and listening. You work on your fluency by talking about a variety of subjects. For example, we spend time looking at Italian history and food culture, you will talk about music, books and films, science, the environment and the news, and activities include listening to a podcast and a radio programme, paying attention to the sounds, intonation and emphasis in the Italian language.
During the course, we will cover the various past tenses used in telling a story (passato prossimo, imperfetto, trapassato prossimo, passato remoto), as well as the hypothetical forms that you can use to talk about possible and impossible situations, and the subjunctive (congiuntivo presente, passato, imperfetto), which is used to express opinions, suppositions and personal taste. You will also learn about pronouns and pronominal verbs.
By the end of this course, you will be able to exchange information, acquire new information and take part in short conservations. You will have expanded your vocabulary and speak more fluently, your pronunciation will have improved and you will talk with more self-confidence. You will have improved your communication skills and are able to apply the language skills you have learnt.